Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-529) and index.
Hot time in the old town, tonight: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressives -- Virtue is its own reward: Woodrow Wilson and the new freedom -- RPM: the flowing rhythm of modern America -- No gods, no masters -- Making waves in world affairs -- Tell that to the Marines! America and World War I -- Tales of the Jazz Age -- Nine mocking years with the golden calf -- The world broken in two -- Down in the dumps--welcome to the Depression -- That man in the White House: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal -- Red, hot, and blue: sunset on the New Deal -- Castles in the air -- Kissing Hitler? Round up the usual suspects -- The miraculous takes a little longer: America and World War II -- Dear hearts and gentle people -- 1945: withered is the garland of the war